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Kitchen Design Gallery
Welcome to our kitchen design gallery. It includes painted kitchens and timber kitchens ... and I will add more pictures, as I get round to taking the photographs. Each section describes one kitchen, its design brief and how the design evolved. You will hopefully be able to find kitchen design ideas, in these case studies, and also tips for overcoming various - uhmm - challenges ... in your own kitchen designs.
To see more of each kitchen, please click on either the thumbnail picture or the title. Click on further thumbnails to start a slide show of the pictures and use the pause button if you want to look at any one picture in more detail.
I hope you enjoy browsing
Marion
A Blue Quart Kitchen ...
... in an elegant pint pot of a flat. I've already written about this kitchen in Majjie's Blog - where I've included some "before" pictures - and I described how difficult the space was. It wasn't that the kitchen was particularly small (by UK small kitchen standards) but it needed to double as a dining area; it also had a sloping wall on one side ... because the flat is on the top floor of a London town house, tucked under a mansard roof ...
Updating a Traditional Farmhouse Kitchen
I don't normally put the "before" pictures in my kitchen design gallery but I've made an exception in this case because the original units, in this big farmhouse kitchen, were so typical of what a good quality farmhouse style kitchen used to look like. (In case you're wondering ... the before pictures are on the left!!)
In Praise of IKEA
This kitchen is in a lovely Victorian house, in the city of Nottingham. Owners, Jo and Steve, were keen to have a more modern look and also needed a lot more storage space. What they didn't have, though, was a big budget to play with.
The answer was to use IKEA units, which are very reasonably priced ... but they asked me for help with the design. I suggested also using IKEA's bespoke, edged laminate worktops. That gave me much more scope to be adventurous with the design and use some interesting worktop shapes.
The Kitchen with a View
This house and kitchen are situated in Turnditch (between Belper and Ashbourne) and the views, out over the Debyshire countryside, are absolutely stunning.
Owners Duncan and Jacquie already knew that they wanted to extend the kitchen into the old pantry and rear entrance hall - and they wanted to alter the windows, to make the most of those views. Further internal alterations would result in a separate area, adjoining the kitchen, with a sofa and a tv ... a real living kitchen, but with rather an odd shape.
Hertfordshire Cottage
This kitchen is in a delightful old cottage, full of character. Great to live in; but character kitchens can prove quite difficult ... for the designer ... and for the cabinetmaker and fitter.
Another Traditional Painted Kitchen
Sorry, the title sounds as if I'm fed up with traditional painted kitchens, whereas in fact I love them. Off white or cream painted furniture brightens up a room to such a huge degree, especially compared to the pine or oak finishes that are often thought to be more in keeping for traditional kitchens.
Gloucester Kitchen
The original kitchen in this lovely house in Gloucester was truly tiny. By the time I went to measure the kitchen it had already been extended but the new room is long and narrow ... with double doors out into the conservatory.
The new kitchen was to be more of a sociable space, to include a fairly large table and, hopefully, a range cooker ... but the working areas of the kitchen really needed to be confined to the same tiny space as taken up by the original kitchen.
Oak Canopy
Just a couple of quick pictures to show you one of the advantages of having a bespoke kitchen made for you.
This is a pippy oak kitchen and the owners wanted a canopy extractor. They weren't sure of the style they wanted, only that it shouldn't look like the in-line fitted canopies that come with standard fitted kitchens.
Once I'd come up with a sketch that they liked, Steve DeVille of Deville Interiors transformed it into reality (Oh ... and he also made all of the doors too!).
Character Oak Kitchen
This is another smallish kitchen and it was difficult to photograph; I don't think my photos do it justice really. The first sketch shows you the layout.
Like many kitchens the working area is confined to one end of the room, in order to fit in a table and chairs at the other end and make the kitchen a very sociable room. The owners wanted a range cooker and a traditional mantel arrangement and there was just room to squeeze this in, along one wall, with a tall housekeeper's cupboard in the corner (with doors opening directly onto the worktop).
Grand Painted Kitchen
This is a family home in London, owned by a builder and his wife. That explains the magnificent vaulted glass roof to the extension but it probably also explains why the kitchen was a tad behind schedule! After all, I haven't yet got round to re-furbishing my own kitchen (I have done the bathroom, though!). The new roof to the kitchen extension makes this a lovely bright room and to stop it ever feeling cold, there is underfloor heating beneath the beautiful stone floor tiles.